Disasters: Four Minutes Out

As jet-age schedules go, Trans World
Airlines' Flight 529 out of Boston is strictly a commuters' local;
before arriving in San Francisco, it makes stops at New York,
Pittsburgh, Chicago, Las Vegas and Los Angeles. Last week, one of the
aging Constellations assigned to the all-coach economy flight got only
halfway before its flight ended in disaster.

At 2:04 a.m., four minutes out of Chicago's Midway Airport,
somethingCivil Aeronautics Board investigators are trying to discover
what it waswent seriously wrong. Pilot James Sanders, 40, veered
north from his southwest heading as he...